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Jones, a man who called himself god. >> how very much i've loved you. how very much i've tried my best to give you the good life. >> who convinced his followers to kill their children and then kill themselves. >> let us be done with it. let's be done with the agony of it. >> drinking a kool-aid-type fruit punch laced with deadly cyanide. >> something to put you to rest. oh god. >> 30 years later in a place where words could kill and did, there is silence. an empty field, the people gone. almost no trace of their lives or dreams.

How very much i've tried my best to give you the good life. >> who convinced his followers to kill their children and then kill themselves. >> let us be done with it. let's be done with the agony of it. >> drinking a kool-aid type fruit punch laced with deadly cyanide. >> this is something to put you to rest. oh, god. >> 30 years later in a place where words could kill, and did, there is silence. an empty field. the people gone. almost no trace of their lives or dreams. this is the site of jonestown's open-air meeting hall where i'm

Carved out of the jungle by jim jones, a man who called himself god. >> how very much i've loved you. how very much i've tried my best to give you the good life. >> who convinced his followers to kill their children and then kill themselves. >> let us be done with it. let's be done with the agony of it. >> drinking a kool-aid-type fruit punch laced with deadly cyanide. >> something to put you to rest. oh god. >> 30 years later in a place where words could kill and did, there is silence. an empty field, the people gone. almost no trace of their lives or dreams.

They have wanted to shut the government down for their own political ideological reasons. and in some ways, they share this mess with president clinton. because in some ways, it serves both of those groups to give their constituency this kind of a message that they're willing to go to the wall for their principles. but the speaker of the house has made a commit many to his conference that if he can keep them united, he will keep them marching in the right direction. >> what we're seeing is the veneer of unity that is the thrill when people jump off a cliff together. you go an inch deep down in...

Little too deep in the kool-aid. >> you don't need to have a weeky board to figure out it is an advantage for the president. when we get to the next election, most of these congressional seats are safe. the republicans and the democrats have redistricted these seats in such a way that they have to serve a narrower constituency. so some of the same national political trends that you see, say, in that generic ballot, aren't in play when these guys are their own personal calculations. >> final word to you, paul. >> i think terry is right. that's a very good point. although if i could give you a f...